Block-Level vs. File-Level Tiering – What’s the Difference?

Finding and tiering your cold data can save substantial costs by offloading it from expensive storage and backups. Tiering has been a solution for years, but the way it’s done can significantly change your actual savings and affect your options to access your cold data. Learn the difference between block-level tiering, which moves blocks that can no longer be directly accessed from their new location without vendor software--and file-level tiering, which fully preserves file access at each tier by keeping the metadata and file attributes with the file—wherever it lives. Join our upcoming webinar to learn the difference between block-level and file-level tiering to make the right choice for your organization. Topics: -Storage strategies of the past -Differences between block- and file-level tiering -Impact on cost savings -Evolving your storage strategy